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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Jeff, I’m the OP and posted this tragedy in off-topic as I think this cuts across so many forums you have on DCUM.  Many crimes have been discussed in off-topic.  Why did you move this one to metropolitan politics? It’s an awful tragedy no matter where you place it, but it feels like this is dehumanizing the death of a six year old girl by categorizing it as local politics.[/quote]

This forum has often been used for local news as well as local politics. That recognizes the fact that DCUM has a national audience and the Off-Topic forum is one that appeals to non-local users. More importantly in this instance, there were already several threads about local crime that had been posted in this forum and keeping them all together makes sense. Before I moved this thread, posters had posted in it about the shooting during the Nationals game and been told to post in the existing thread on that topic. But, that thread was in this forum, so not obvious to posters in Off-Topic. Moving this thread here is organizationally more logical.
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